Dark Gold in colour, with a citrusy/herbal/sherberty/resin aroma. Initial taste of pricly spice and sherbert and lemon, full bodied with initial sweetnes. Spicy bitter after palate and very drying, makes you want to take another sip.

Ingredients:
Pale Ale Malt, Vienna Malt
Single hopped with Northern Brewer during the boil and Aroma hopped in the Whirlpool with Northern Brewer and Cascade

[Cask at The Falcon (JDW), High Wycombe] Pale (some might say insipid) gold with a moderate white head and a slight fizz. Very thin and watery mouthfeel. It’s pretty bland with just vague hints of doughy bread, lemon, cardboard and vomit. Beers that taste of watered-down sick put me right off.

Cask at The Moon Under Water (JDW), Watford on 1 Nov 2012. Poured a lightly hazy deep golden colour, with a thin white head. Aroma of soft fruit, floral hop and lager malt. Peaches in the flavour, with some spongecake and smooth malt. Finish was caramel, raisins and a little hop resin.

On cask as "Okell’s Steam - Amber Ale". Yellow-orange in colour, smooth in the beginning. The mainpart is grainy, slightly sweety, hints of wheat. The aftertaste is smooth, slightly grainy-bitter, not too deep and quite easy to drink.
On the tongue remains a smooth, sweetish-grainy aroma with slightly bitter wheatish hints.

Cask-conditioned at the Commercial Rooms, Bristol, November 2012. Golden with a tight white head. Sweetish, apricot and tangerine fruit aroma with a hint of floral hop. Flavour had pleasantly biscuity malts, more fruits and a moderately bitter finish. Drinkable.

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